CONOID

conoid

Noun

  1. Anything shaped like a cone.
  2. A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line.
  3. A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis.
    A parabolic conoid is a paraboloid; an elliptic conoid is an ellipsoid.

Adjective

  1. Shaped like a cone; conical


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